Lady Indica:I'm not a huge ice cream fan (though I do love B&J, suck it haters) but the two best ice creams I've ever had...

1) a vanilla I had in Amish country in Pennsylvania. My grandfather and I went to a Amish family style place, where they have groups at a single table, passing items, like a family meal. Dessert was the best vanilla ice cream I've ever had in my life. I asked for the recipe. Guy in the kitchen came out sheepishly, it was the local store brand of ice cream. (Not available in CA, so I don't remember the name but it was a cheap local).

pet peeve time:

I don't care whether you call it French vanilla, vanilla bean, Ugandan vanilla, whatever. But it better taste like vanilla --- as opposed to that flavorless crap people call "vanilla" in the USA. Hell, people even USE the word "vanilla" now to mean "plain" or "basic" or "flavorless." It's a travesty, I tell you. Why would you do that to one of the greatest flavors in the world?

Whoever first tried to pass off flavorless bland crap as "vanilla" ice cream should be boiled in a pit of anthrax ripple no-fat frozen milk. Except , you know, it's not frozen anymore because it's BOILING. AAARGH! Just use a flamethrower on them or cut their heart out with a spoon or something. I can't think of a punishment bad enough.

By now the curry ice cream with the jolly and not at all racially insensitive drawing of an Asian man on the lid looks almost non-terrifying. At least you won't dig up uncooked chunks of dead endangered species inside. Maybe.

I'm not a huge ice cream fan (though I do love B&J, suck it haters) but the two best ice creams I've ever had...

1) a vanilla I had in Amish country in Pennsylvania. My grandfather and I went to a Amish family style place, where they have groups at a single table, passing items, like a family meal. Dessert was the best vanilla ice cream I've ever had in my life. I asked for the recipe. Guy in the kitchen came out sheepishly, it was the local store brand of ice cream. (Not available in CA, so I don't remember the name but it was a cheap local).

2) My roommate makes homemade ice cream. Homemade is just the best, unbelievably good. Alton Brown recipes, and an ice cream maker. Though it broke so I need to get a new one now that it's pretty much summer. :D